Culture First. Behavior Second.™
Build the Classroom You Actually WANT to Teach In
In just seven hours—one focused hour a day—you can build the foundation for your entire school year.
Build Your Classroom™ gives K–12 educators the proven frameworks to intentionally build stronger culture, routines, expectations, student ownership, and learning—so you spend less time managing behavior and more time teaching.
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One Hour a Day for Seven Days
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Six Step-by-Step Frameworks
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First Community Month Included
$67 • Immediate Access • Self-Paced • Designed for K–12 Educators
BUILD IT FIRST. MANAGE IT SECOND.™
The Real Problem Is Not That You Need to Get Stricter
You Don’t Need Another Behavior Management Program.
The strongest classrooms are not built by reacting to behavior. They are built intentionally from the beginning.
I spent nearly the first decade of my teaching career believing classroom management was the answer.
I searched for stricter consequences, better behavior strategies, and new ways to get students to listen, follow directions, and stay on task.
Everything changed when I stopped asking, “How do I manage this class?”
And started asking, “How do I intentionally build the classroom I actually want to teach in?”
That question changed how I planned, taught routines, established expectations, and invited students into ownership. It became the foundation of everything I teach today.
The TEN Philosophy
Culture First. Behavior Second.™
Build it first. Manage it second.™
This Is What You Are Building Toward
Imagine Walking Into a Classroom Where…
You are not spending every day putting out the same fires. Your classroom has a foundation students can understand, contribute to, and help lead.
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Students Know How to Participate
They discuss, collaborate, contribute, and think without relying on the same few students every time.
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Routines Build Independence
Students know what to do because routines are intentionally taught, practiced, and strengthened.
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Expectations Become Part of the Culture
They are not just posted or repeated. Students experience, practice, reflect on, and begin to own them.
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Students Take Real Ownership
They solve problems, reflect, lead, recognize one another, and help protect the classroom community.
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Learning Feels More Engaging
Students do more of the talking, thinking, moving, collaborating, and making meaning.
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You Get to Enjoy Teaching Again
You spend less time repeating, redirecting, and reacting—and more time teaching the way you want to teach.
This Does Not Happen by Accident
It Happens One Intentional Decision at a Time.
And in just seven focused hours, you can make the foundational decisions that shape your entire school year.
Your Seven-Hour Classroom Build
Build Your Classroom™ Gives You the Plan.
You do not need to figure out your entire classroom from scratch.
In one focused hour a day, you will move through six proven frameworks that help you make the foundational decisions for your year—before the first day begins.
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Focused Hours
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Proven Frameworks
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Stronger Year
Vision + Community
Decide what you want students to do, say, feel, and experience—and what your classroom must make possible.
Intentional Structures™
Build routines and classroom structures that support your vision, strengthen independence, and make participation easier.
Teacher Language
Plan how you will communicate expectations, reinforce progress, redirect effectively, and follow through consistently.
Empowering Lessons™
Design learning that gives students more voice, thinking, movement, collaboration, responsibility, and ownership.
Expectations + Ownership
Build expectations students understand, practice, reflect on, and eventually begin to protect and lead.
First 3 Days Launch™
Turn everything you built into a clear launch plan for the first three days of school.
Seven hours. Six frameworks. One classroom built intentionally around the teacher you want to be and the students you are ready to lead.
$67 • Immediate Access • Self-Paced • First Community Month Included
Everything You Need in One Place
Everything You Need to Build Your Classroom™
No scattered ideas. No guessing what to plan next. You get one complete, self-paced experience that walks you from vision to launch.
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5 Coaching Videos
Clear, focused guidance that helps you make strong decisions without overcomplicating the process.
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6 Proven Frameworks
Step-by-step planning tools that turn big ideas into classroom decisions you can actually use.
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Build Your Classroom Workbook
A complete place to think, plan, reflect, and build out the foundation for your year.
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First 3 Days Launch Plan™
Turn your planning into a clear, intentional launch for the opening days of school.
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7 Professional Learning Hours
Complete the experience in one focused hour a day—or work through it in a single weekend.
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Completion Certificate
Document your professional learning when you complete the course.
Included Bonus
Your First Month Inside Teach Like a TopTEN™
Get continued support, fresh implementation ideas, current challenges, and a community of educators building stronger classrooms right alongside you.
One focused experience. One intentional classroom. One stronger year.
Everything is self-paced, so you can complete one hour each day—or finish the entire experience in a weekend.
$67 • Immediate Access • Self-Paced
Meet Your Guide
I’m Sarah—and I Built This for the Teacher I Used to Be.
I didn’t create another classroom management course.
I created the planning experience I wish someone had given me during my first decade of teaching—before I spent years searching for strategies that treated the behavior instead of building the culture.
For 25 years, I have worked as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, presenter, and curriculum designer. Everything inside Build Your Classroom™ comes from real classrooms, proven practice, and the lessons I learned by building stronger cultures year after year.
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Years in Education
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Classroom Application
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Culture-First Mission
“You do not need to become a different teacher. You need a stronger foundation for the teacher you already are.”
— Sarah Legault, Founder of Teachers Empowerment Network
Your Stronger Year Starts Here
Ready to Build the Classroom You Actually WANT to Teach In?
In just seven focused hours, you can build the culture, routines, expectations, student ownership, and launch plan that shape your entire school year.
$67 • Immediate Access • Self-Paced • First Community Month Included
Build it first. Manage it second.™
